Chemical industry - Unit 6 Flashcards
What is meant by dynamic equilibirum?
1 - Rate of forward reaction equals rate of reverse reaction in a closed system
What do you talk about when asked ‘Comment on the choice of conditions’ (2)
1 - Yeild
2 - Rate
What is the effect of a catalyst on equillibrium?
1 - No effect on equillibirum
2 - Increases rate of forward and reverse reaction equally by providing alternative reaction pathway with a lower Ea
What is NH4+?
The ammonium ion
What is the name of N2O?
dinitrogen oxide
What is the apperance of NO, NO2, N2O?
NO = colourless gas, turns to brown NO2 in air
NO2 = brown gas
N2O = colourless gas
How is NO formed? (3)
1 - Combustion in engines
2 - Thunderstorms
3 - In soil by denitrofying bacteria
How is NO2 formed?
from oxidation of NO in atmosphere
How is N2O formed?
In soil by denitrfying bacteria
What is the reactivity of N2O, NO, NO2 (2)
NO + NO2 = most reactive as radicals
N2O = less reactive as not a radical
What is the test for a nitrate (V) ion and equation? (4)
1 - Add Davardas alloy - Al (reducing agent)
2 - Add NaOH
3 - Add sample to a test tube + heat
4 - NH3 gas turns damp red litmus paper blue
What is the test for ammonium ions? (3)
1 - Add NaOh to sample
2 - Add to test tube + heat
3 - NH3 gas will turn damp red litmus paper blue
How do you make sulfuric acid? (4)
1 - Extraction of sulfur
2 - Conversion of sulfur to sulfur dioxide
3 - Conversion of sulfur dioxide to sulfur trioxide
4 - Conversion of sulfur trioxide to sulfuric oxide
What is rate of a reaction?
How quickly reactants are converted into products
What are the experimental methods that can be used to measure the rate of reaction? (5)
1 - Volume gas produced - gas syringe
2 - Mass lost (gas lost)
3 - pH changes - pH probe
4 - Coloured product made or reactant used - colormetry
5 - Titration - taking samples at a known time - quenching samples (stop/slow down reaction) - titrate samples
What are the issues with measuring the mass lost of a gas?
The mass of the gas could be so little that the mass scale would not detect a loss in mass
How can you quench a smaple? (2)
1 - If acid you could add a base to neutralise reaction
2 - Sit on a bed of ice
What is the equations and catalyst for production of sulfuric acid? (3)
1 - S + O2 –> SO2
2 - SO2 + 1/2 O2 <—-> SO3 (contact process)
V2O5 (catalyst)
3 - SO3 + 1/2 O2 –> SO4
What are the possible units for rate? (3)
1 - moldm-3s-1
2 - cm3s-1
3 - gs-1
What is the use of rate equations?
Allow estimates to be made about the impact of a factor on the rate of a reaction without having to carry out experiments
What does the gradient of a graph give you?
The rate
Explain the rates on graph? (2)
1 - Steep gradient gives fast rate - conc. reactnat high
2 - Shallow gradient gives slow rate - conc. reactant falls
How can you find initial rate?
Draw a tangent to the curve at t=0
What does straight line graph mean?
rate directly proptional to conc. reactant
What is k (lower case) ?
rate constant
What does k vary with?
temp